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Continental drift |
the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
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Plate tectonics |
astructure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena
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Pangea |
Pathetically supercontinent that included all current land masses
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Lithospheric plates |
Earth's crust and upper mantle that are fractured into plates that move across a deeper plasticine mantle.
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Convection currents |
a current in a fluid that results from convection.
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Divergent boundary |
a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
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Sea floor spreading |
which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side
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Convergent boundary |
tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
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Subduction zones |
high rates of volcanism, earthquakes, and mountain building.
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Transform boundary |
Type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal in either sinistral or dextral direction.
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